Hosea 8
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Hosea 8
Israel’s Apostasy
1 #
Hos 4.6; 5.8; 6.7; Hab 1.8 Set the trumpet to your lips!
One like a vulture#8.1 Meaning of Heb uncertain is over the house of the Lord,
because they have broken my covenant
and transgressed my law.
2 #
Hos 7.14
They cry to me,
“My God, we know you!”#8.2 Gk Syr: Heb adds Israel
3Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.
4 #
Hos 2.8; 13.10, 11 They made kings but not through me;
they set up princes but without my knowledge.
With their silver and gold they made idols
for their own destruction.
5 #
v 6
; Jer 13.27; Hos 10.5; 13.2Your calf is rejected, O Samaria.
My anger burns against them.
How long will they be incapable of innocence?
6 #
Hos 13.2
For it is from Israel,
an artisan made it;
it is not God.
The calf of Samaria
shall be broken to pieces.
7 #
Isa 66.15; Hos 10.12, 13; Nah 1.3 For they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no meal;
if it were to yield,
foreigners would devour it.
8 #
Jer 51.34; Hos 13.15 Israel is swallowed up;
now they are among the nations
as a useless vessel.
9 #
Jer 2.24; Ezek 16.33; Hos 7.11 For they have gone up to Assyria,
a wild ass wandering alone;
Ephraim has bargained for lovers.
10 #
Jer 42.2; Ezek 16.37; 22.20 Though they bargain with the nations,
I will now gather them up.
They shall soon writhe
under the burden of kings and princes.
11When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sin,
they became to him altars for sinning.
12 #
v 1
; Hos 4.6Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions,
they are regarded as a strange thing.
13 #
Jer 7.21; Hos 4.9; 7.2; 9.3, 6, 7; 1 Cor 4.5 Though they offer choice sacrifices,#8.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
though they eat flesh,
the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
they shall return to Egypt.
14 #
Jer 17.27; Hos 2.13; 13.6 Israel has forgotten his Maker
and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
but I will send a fire upon his cities,
and it shall devour his strongholds.
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